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"Shibboleth"? Cultural appropriation!

This is the exact us-vs-them mentality that we should avoid. "Republicans [...] hate gay people" "[If you're not on my side you're on theirs]"

Yeah, the hospital visitation rights and death benefits are good points. I'm not sure why those are so restrictive at all? Why even require a documented relationship? Just let peop…

Neither of the two major presidential candidates last election came anywhere near halfway matching my stances on issues. Yet there was a third party (I guess sort of a fourth) whom…

I think this is still a false dichotomy. Some of us just don't want the government subsidizing marriage at all. Why should any dual-income pair get tax benefits? I say this as a ma…

One cannot even seem to have 'conservative' stances on one thing and 'liberal' stances on others. And, no, I'm not libertarian either. The US had a great opportunity to elect a thi…

Maybe people shouldn't use metaphors. And stairs. Metaphors and stairs are my least favorite things.

Other than the idioms, that's a pretty good literal translation. Definitely understandable. I agree machine translation is weaker than human translation, but I don't understand you…

Sure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for d…